Reply #4: Act out, get pacified. [View All]

[Igel]

Reasonable thing to fear, given the occasional problem with pacificationists in Europe and elsewhere. But snivelling to actually engage in fearing them.

Islam has frequently been a religion of pacification. The antidote to chaos, to corruption. Even Hamas runs on that slogan, the Islamists in Somalia peacefully attack towns that have not attacked them, and in the interests of peace many in Iraq are busy killing, lest the wrong kind of peace take hold.

True, 'pax' is at the root of the word. But 'pacify' has long since stopped having a positive sense to its meaning: 'cause to have peace'.

Given the traditional split between the areas of peace and those of war, I find the areas of war to be much more pleasant and peaceful, thank you. More tolerant, too, by and large.